The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a 1965 musical drama film directed and produced by Robert Wise. The film is based on Richard Rodgers' 1959 stage musical of the same name, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film, based on Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, is about a young Austrian postulant in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. She marries the officer after introducing love and music into the family's lives, and together with the children, they find a way to survive the Nazis' takeover of their homeland.

The Sound of Music won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Wise's second pair of both honors after West Side Story in 1961. The film was also nominated for two Golden Globes, for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, as well as the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical.

Detailed information:

Directed by: Robert Wise

Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn

Release date: March 2, 1965

Running time: 174 minutes